Posts about Development
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Two (very different) planned towns in Maryland
Passing through the D.C. metro area after New Year’s, we decided to visit two classic planned communities in the Maryland suburbs: Greenbelt and Kentlands. Both were planned and built from the ground up and both contain around 2,000 households. Otherwise, they could not be more different. One was entirely created by the federal government, the other by private developers. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Looking to history
Historic Walter Reed; Independence from B Street; Do you know?; Year of Sustainability; 5 mph less, 40% fewer deaths; And…; Thanks, Stephen!. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Boxes and bags
Box of trash or standard contemporary?; Safeway taking another way; How are the bags?; BRAC bike lanes; Fun and games until it becomes criminal; Reading makes a comeback; Fake placard involved in NYC bomb scare. Keep reading…
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Animal sprawl
This week’s Tom the Dancing Bug imagines if animals from the wild settled our habitats the way humans take over theirs. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Happy New Year
A growing city; Charles County sprawlway; The ridership is right; C for yourself; Busted!; Is that multi-state inter-agency cooperation I see?; What’s driving business?. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Put your hands up for Detroit
Seed money; Honey, I shrunk the city; Something to be MADD about?; Spic-and-span; The year in development; Running away from consequences. Keep reading…
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Growth policy must talk about building community, not formulas
This is a new house for sale. It has four bedrooms, three bathrooms, a one-car garage, and a small but flat yard. It’s located in an established community with well-kept homes and top-rated schools that look like something out of a movie. It is affluent, but middle-class by D.C. standards, and it’s not very different from other D.C. suburbs with detached houses… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Stalled and crashing, but not burning
Pie in the Skyland; ACT calls out MoCo DOT; More top ten, this time in Maryland; Steps toward TOD; A nickel and two dimes to save commuters time; Crash course. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: More transit next week, less overall
Holiday transit; Rail ridership declined everywhere; Peter Craig, freeway fighter; Kaine’s biggest regret; Highways are socialism; Contributions drove Accokeek?; What killed the Vegas Monorail; Why not advertise to parking commuters?. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Consequences of snow
Sidesnowpiles; Two pedestrians die; You can’t save a space; Post ignores own staff and blogs to get story wrong?; Free parking means no parking; Arlington in DC all along?; And…. Keep reading…